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Old June 1st, 2011, 22:28
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Hello,

I just want to tell you about a new desktop app for FreeBSD - Bt4BSD. It's a simple bluetooth manager (frontend for obexapp) specially for FreeBSD/PC-BSD. Not too functional now, but I think it's useful for users who use the system as a desktop.

So here it is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bt4bsd/
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We generally discourage users from installing third-party software outside of the ports tree or the package system. Will you make this available as an official port?
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Yes, it's in the plans.
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GUI for the ftrn channel! I love you! I hope there's will be a port soon :]
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We generally discourage users from installing third-party software outside of the ports tree or the package system...
Why would you discourage them?
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Because non-port/package software tends to install executables, libraries and configuration files outside of /usr/local/, e.g. in /bin/, /usr/bin/, /usr/lib/, /var/lib/, /etc/, et cetera. That is strictly base system territory. Not only does this make it very hard to track down what gets installed where, but there's also usually not a proper way to deinstall external software, so remnants of it get left behind, and may interfere with later versions. Everything installed using a port or a package is traceable, maintainable, upgradeable, and deinstallable (because of pkg-plist, the ports Mk structure, and other mechanisms) using specialized tools (pkg_* and port management tools).
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Additionally, the ports/package system maintains dependency lists to prevent removing things that are still required by another package.
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Is it only for i386? I tried it with amd64 but I was unable to compile.
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At the moment the assembly has been tested only on i386.
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